Song of Solomon 8:4
King James Version
6 Jun 2026
“I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.”
מָה
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
שָׁבַע
I adjure
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שָׁבַע
To swear, to take an oath. Shaba. God swore by Himself because there is none greater. His promises are backed by His own eternal nature.
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עַד
until
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עַד
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
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בַּת
O daughters of
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בַּת
a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)
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יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם
Jerusalem
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יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם
Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
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עוּר
will you arouse
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עוּר
to wake (literally or figuratively)
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